SSD causing slow performance occationally (Respons time)

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I've been having some issues with my OS SSD. It's a 64GB Corsair "CORSAIR CMFSSD-64GB2D".

What happens is that it will occationally without really being put under a lot of stress start going at 100% active time. It will then get a very high Average Respons Time, up to 20.000ms, and being the OS drive put the entire system to a halt for up to a few minutes.

I can not find any specific trigger, and I've tried looking at the error log without seeing any pointers. That being said, I'm hardly an expert and was just looking for an abnormal amount of errors or warnings within the timespan that it was malfunctioning.

I've searched some, and all I could find was some SSDs with a controller problem, some early controller for SSDs that had some kind of rewrite problem that could stack up into something like this. However I have no idea if corsair have ever used that controller and if this SSD could have it.

Any ideas, or pointers for things I can check would be great, I'd really like to figure this out as it's driving me mental. I hope that it would not be the controller thing as where I found some information about that, it seemed to be something that could not be fixed with anything other then a new SSD with better controllers.

Thanks in advance ;)
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8
    CPU
    3,6GHz i7
    Motherboard
    ASUS P9X79 PRO
    Memory
    Corsair Dominator DDR3 1600MHz 32GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    GeForce GTX 680 2GB
Question: How much room is left on the SSD after you have installed all your programs/apps, and anything else you may have put on the drive?
 

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There are a few smaller programs which has been installed on the SSD, browsers, music players, video players. It has 11,8GB available of 59,1.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8
    CPU
    3,6GHz i7
    Motherboard
    ASUS P9X79 PRO
    Memory
    Corsair Dominator DDR3 1600MHz 32GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    GeForce GTX 680 2GB
How about power saving settings for disk, did you check that ? SSDs use a very small amount of power and even on laptops it is not necessary to shut them down during normal use.
 

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Also check in task manager (process tab) what process takes over the drive, that may help.
 

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    Windows 8.1 64 Bit
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    PC/Desktop
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    Self built
    CPU
    Intel Celeron G530
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte GA-H61M-S2-B3
    Memory
    6GB DDR3
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    ATI Radeon HD 5450
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    Onboard
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Have you checked to make sure you SSD is/was properly aligned upon initial installation? Also, I hope you have disabled automatic maintenance (defrag) for that drive.
 

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    Windows 8 Pro Windows 8.1 Preview
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    PC/Desktop
Also, on the disabled defrag view, is your drive being properly recognized as a "solid state device?"
 

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    Windows 8 Pro Windows 8.1 Preview
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    PC/Desktop
I disable all power saving options, the harddrive is never set to sleep. I have disabled defragment, what would a defragment do negatively for an SSD? It is recognized as an SSD, however under Current status at the defragment menu it says "Optimisation not available" Not sure why, considering my other SSD does have the option of being defragmented.

What do you mean by aligned and how could I check if it is? It was however formated by the windows installer, and from what information I've been able to collect by a google search, that should secure proper alignment.

As far as what programs, I can take a look next time it occurs, and see if anything points out. Is there any way I can isolate only the disk usage related to one partition or drive? Considering I have 4 different, so it would be nice to only see the load put on that SSD isolated.
 
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My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8
    CPU
    3,6GHz i7
    Motherboard
    ASUS P9X79 PRO
    Memory
    Corsair Dominator DDR3 1600MHz 32GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    GeForce GTX 680 2GB
I disable all power saving options, the harddrive is never set to sleep. I have disabled defragment, what would a defragment do negatively for an SSD? It is recognized as an SSD, however under Current status at the defragment menu it says "Optimisation not available" Not sure why, considering my other SSD does have the option of being defragmented.

What do you mean by aligned and how could I check if it is?

That's not a good sign. Maybe you do have an alignment problem. Here a quick way to check your alignment:

http://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/checking_ssd_alignment

This works for Windows 8 as well. Repeat for each partition.
 

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  • OS
    Windows 8 Pro Windows 8.1 Preview
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
They're all aligned according to that test
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8
    CPU
    3,6GHz i7
    Motherboard
    ASUS P9X79 PRO
    Memory
    Corsair Dominator DDR3 1600MHz 32GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    GeForce GTX 680 2GB
That's good news. Could you give us a screenshot of your device manager with the following items opened?

dev.jpg
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8 Pro Windows 8.1 Preview
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
devman.png
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8
    CPU
    3,6GHz i7
    Motherboard
    ASUS P9X79 PRO
    Memory
    Corsair Dominator DDR3 1600MHz 32GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    GeForce GTX 680 2GB
OK, I'm confused about the disk drive view because I see two SSDs and one looks like it might be a caching SSD of sorts.

The controller view looks like its using the default Win 8 Drivers. That means you never installed the latest Intel chipset drivers.

I have no idea why you are showing an IDE controller in the Storage Controllers view.

In summary, I don't think I can be of any help here other than to suggest you install the latest chipset drivers from Intel; however, this information may be useful to the next person that comes along to assist you so good luck and I wish you the best in getting your problem resolved.
 

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  • OS
    Windows 8 Pro Windows 8.1 Preview
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    PC/Desktop
there are two SSDs, one of them, the one with the problem is the 64GB that is used for the OS.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8
    CPU
    3,6GHz i7
    Motherboard
    ASUS P9X79 PRO
    Memory
    Corsair Dominator DDR3 1600MHz 32GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    GeForce GTX 680 2GB
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